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Richard C. Burke

Richard C. Burke has taught English at Lynchburg College in
Lynchburg, Virginia, since 1985. He has degrees in English from
Fairfield University (A.B.), Pennsylvania State University (M.A.),
and the University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign (Ph.D.).

His primary field is Victorian fiction, and he has published on
Dickens and Trollope. But his interests range widely, and he has
published or presented on Euripides, Shakespeare, Chekhov, Shaw,
Kawabata, Oe, Wordsworth, Pound, and others, as well as a number of
children's writers, including Joan Aiken and Philip Pullman. His
two current areas of interest are death in children's fantasy
series and exemplary and cautionary tales. In addition, he has
written and presented on a variety of pedagogical and
administrative matters.

He has also held various administrative positions, including,
most recently, Director for Curriculum Development at Lynchburg
College.

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